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Tom Houston spent a year working on this presentation in the PARC PATS Room as a way to memorialize the tragedy of 9/11/2001
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“We Remember”By Tom Houston
The National 911 Memorial is located in Lower Manhattan, a part
of New York City.
Still Standing PROUDThe National 911 Memorial is located where the World Trade Center once
stood.
The Memorial has 2 reflecting pools
Salute at 911 MemorialThe names of every person who died in the
2001 and 1993 terrorist attacks are inscribed into bronze panels surrounding the pools
The names of all these people who died as a result of the terrorist attacks are included on the bronze panels: the people at the two towers of
the World Trade Center, the people on the 4 airplanes that crashed, the people at the
Pentagon, and the first responders.
Visitors can make rubbings of names to take home
with them.
At night, a light shines up through the names.
The two reflecting pools feature the largest manmade
waterfalls in North America
A “Callery Pear” tree survived the 911 devastation. It was removed, nursed back
to health, and re-planted near the memorial. It is known as the “survivor
tree”.
President Barack Obama attended a memorial service at the National 911 Memorial on Sept.
11, 2011, along with family members of the 911 victims. The memorial opened to the
public on Sept. 12, 2011
The National September 11 Museum is under construction next
to the memorial. This is what the outside will look like.
Two trident-shaped columns were salvaged from the original World
Trade center. They are incorporated into the atrium of the new
museum.
The “ Last Column” was placed in the lowest level of the museum, and the museum was built
around it. The “Last Column” was the final steel beam to be removed from the World Trade Center
site. It is covered with inscriptions, photos, and mementos placed there by family members and
recovery workers.
A new skyscraper is also being built on the former World Trade Center site. The name of the skyscraper is: One World
Trade Center. (It was formerly known as Freedom Tower.)
The concrete base will have no windows and is strong enough to
withstand a truck bomb.
The first of three 25-ton steel columns was erected in Dec.
2006.
This is how the building under
construction looked on July 31, 2011
This picture shows how close all 3 sites are each other: the National 911 Memorial in the
foreground, with the Museum and the new One World Trade Center, under construction,
in the background.
When complete, One World Trade Center will
have a radio antenna mast on top. Counting
the radio antenna mast, the building will be 1776
feet tall. (1776 is symbolic-it is the year of
American Independence.)
The building will have 105 stories. The building will be completed in 2013. It will be the tallest building in North America (when you count in
the height of the antenna mast).
Above the mast, an intense beam of light will be lit at night and will be visible over 1,000
feet in the air above the tower.
I am proud of my country!
Tom Houston